Cabot Hosiery Mills has grown regularly since it introduced Darn Tough. It produced 2.4 million pairs of socks in 2007. Cabot increased sales by landing military contracts for the US$ 20 socks and by making an early move to position the company as a family business in small-town Vermont well before it became common for customers to seek ways to relate to the origin of the products they purchased.
Tajikistan is also successfully executing the International Trade Center (ITC) program, targeted at supporting the development of the textile and clothing industry and improving the quality management infrastructure. A complete production cycle was organized, including the production of raw materials, spinning, fabric manufacturing, and the manufacture of garments and carpets, in the middle of the last century. The main products are fabrics and garments made from them, denim pants, shorts, textiles, carpet and leather products.
INVISTA has invested more than $600 million in China to support the nylon market, including a 215,000-ton hexamethylenediamine (HMD) plant and a 150,000-ton polymer plant, at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP), over the past five years.
Invista has been meeting with customers and industry participants to grow a combined strategy concentrated on meeting China’s local needs for ADN, which is used to make nylon polymer, fibres and other specialty materials such as hexamethylene diisocyanate (HDI) for coatings.
In April 2018, a Memorandum was signed between Iteca Exhibitions (ITE Uzbekistan®), the International Exhibition Company and recently established Uzbekistan Textile and Garment Industries Association on joint organization in September 5-7, 2018 of the 1st International Uzbek Textile and Fashion Industries Exhibition - UzTextile Expo in Tashkent.
The Company concluded that, “What began six decades ago as a single elastic fibre renowned for its ability to stretch and snap back to its original shape, time after time and wash after wash, has evolved into a portfolio of over 200 differentiated fibres designed to meet a wide variety of consumer needs. Each one is engineered to improve fabric aesthetics and add lasting performance benefits that continue to drive sales for leading clothing brands and retailers around the globe.”
In textile processing units, where number of female workers are 20 against 680 males, they do not have separate toilets for females.The situation in the powerloom units is worse as only few number of industrial areas have toilets and urinals, while most do not have urinal facilities and workers are forced to defecate in the open.
Invista opens a new state-of-the-art, nylon 6,6 facility in China. The new facility includes a 215,000-ton hexamethylene diamine (HMD) plant and a 150,000-ton polymer plant, at the Shanghai Chemical Industry Park (SCIP). The opening of new nylon plant looks to meet the growing demand for products using the fibre such as hosiery and other apparel.
Unifi Manufacturing, Inc. a leading producer of multi-filament polyester and nylon textured yarns and related raw materials has invested $28 million in its new 150,000 square foot bottle processing center in Reidsville at the time when hundreds of textile companies have left the Tar Heel State in the last couple of decades, but Unifi continued to expand.
Meridian Specialty Yarn Group, Inc. (MSYG), headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, a leading specialty yarn manufacturer and producer of package dyed and space dyed yarn, is planning major expansion of their current manufacturing operations in Valdese, North Carolina. Meridian anticipates spending $8 million on the expansion.
The 16th China Yiwu International Exhibition on Textile Machinery, (YiwuTex 2015) is recognized as one of the biggest and most professional exhibition specializing in knitting and hosiery industry. It is going to meet the demand of the trend and help textile enterprises to realize transformation and to enhance competitiveness.
After its 16 years’ development, YiwuTex has now grown up to be an important support for Zhejiang textile industry. It targets advancement, energy-saving and automation technology, providing a one-stop platform running through knitting and garment industry.
